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Whiteplains Public Information:
Don Cook 100 Cirrus Way Gilbert, South Carolina 29054
(803) 543-8108 Email: duckey123@gmail.com

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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Test flight using the 808 Spy Cam that I got from www.meritline.com . You can get one for $8.99 when it's on sale, plus another $10 bucks for the micro sd card. Be sure to get the class 10 card to prevent frame drops. It takes up to a 8 gb, but the battery only lasts for about 4 gb. (49 mins max out of mine.) Looks like a car key remote. The sound is really good except when it is tapped to the tail of a Mooney going 150 mph. Takes 720 X 480 HD video, and 1280 X 960 stills. On this flight I went just before sunset to Pelion for a gas run. Gas was $5.25.

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Under extremely unusual circumstances, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently granted a company called LightSquared the right to use wireless spectrum to build out a national 4G wireless network LightSquared will get the spectrum for a song, while its competitors have to spend billions.

Thursday, August 04, 2011

Until recently, Electronic Flight Bags (EFBs) were typically thought of as large computer devices mounted in the cockpits of high-end jets and airliners. They usually relied on a permanent mounting fixture, and needed to be hard-wired into the aircraft’s electrical system. Once installed, these EFBs provided electronic charts, moving map displays and weather in the cockpit. While they could be adapted to general aviation aircraft, the costs usually outweighed the benefits, and they never really gained widespread popularity. During this time consumer electronics manufacturers sold more affordable, tablet-based computers that could be modified to serve as an EFB, but it took a lot of work on the pilot’s end to load software and string around wires in the cockpit.

First LightSquared proposed (and the FCC conditionally accepted) a network for terrestrial broadband Internet that would have destroyed GPS navigation throughout the United States. In defense of LightSquared, however, it did say that in order to head off most interference issues, it would be happy to let pilots install elaborate filters in their GPS devices — at the pilots' expense, of course — to overcome the interference the LightSquared network would cause. That is very thoughtful of LightSquared.

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